Jun 5, 2024; Columbus, Ohio, USA; PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan speaks in the course of the Honoree Ceremony for the Memorial Event at Muirfield Village Golf Membership. When PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan spoke with reporters in Memphis, Tenn., on Wednesday, it was maybe his most temporary assertion that carried essentially the most weight.
“I believe that is honest.”
That was Monahan’s reply when requested whether it is secure to imagine that the Tour won’t be partnering with LIV Golf for at the very least the following three seasons.
Monahan held court docket with the media on the eve of the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the primary of the three-event FedEx Cup playoffs, which is being contested at TPC Southwind.
Earlier within the day, the Tour launched the 2025 regular-season schedule, which featured minimal modifications relative to this season’s schedule.
As Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund lured increasingly gamers to its LIV Golf tour with profitable contracts, the PGA Tour final summer time developed the Strategic Sports activities Group, a bunch of American sports activities group house owners that might put money into the PGA Tour golf and in flip pay gamers primarily based on their efficiency whereas permitting the gamers to grow to be fairness holders within the Tour.
In January, the SSG made a $1.5 billion funding to grow to be minority house owners of the PGA Tour. On Monday, the Tour introduced Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1-ranked participant on the planet, earned an $8 million bonus for his efficiency this season — essentially the most of any golfer on Tour. Xander Schauffele completed second and acquired $6 million.
“When you concentrate on the place we had been (previous to the SSG), engagement amongst our gamers, our companions, our followers, our traders I believe is actually, actually excessive and actually robust. There’s super momentum,” Monahan stated Wednesday.
The PGA Tour and PIF most just lately met in June to debate a possible future partnership however gave no indication {that a} deal was shut.
Additionally on Wednesday, Monahan addressed the problem of elevated participant enter when it comes to working the Tour, now that the SSG offers them a stake within the group.
“Because it pertains to the enterprise, now that we now have shaped PGA TOUR Enterprises (the for-profit entity established to permit the SSG to grow to be a Tour accomplice), you may have that construction for innovation,” Monahan stated.
“We’re driving ahead quite a lot of these improvements, and our gamers are offering precious and wanted enter,” he continued.
Monahan and chief competitions officer Tyler Dennis additionally spoke in regards to the end to final weekend’s Wyndham Championship. Veteran Matt Kuchar, sitting 212 yards from the 18th pin with daylight working out at Sedgefield Nation Membership in Greensboro, N.C. on Sunday, opted to cease taking part in and end his spherical on Monday.
The next day, he completed the outlet as the one participant on the course. The remainder of the sector opted to complete their rounds on Sunday.
“Matt had each proper to do precisely what he did,” Monahan stated. “There are such a lot of distinctive circumstances that come up on the PGA Tour, and that was one in all them.”
Dennis added: “The officers principally have a typical working process that proper round sundown they are going to point out that we’ll droop play. (On Sunday, there was) successfully one group left, the blokes in entrance of them had been virtually finished. I believe Matt teed off a pair teams earlier than sundown, and our head official notified the group that they had been in a position to proceed or cease in the event that they wanted to.”
“We simply wish to apply the foundations in the identical method every week, and that is what occurred,” Dennis added.
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